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Rediscovering Sublime Text(blakewatson.com)
7 points by blakewatson 17d ago|3 comments
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by blakewatson 17d ago
After a Visual Studio Code update started causing issues with my onscreen keyboard, I rage-quit for the weekend and hopped over to my old friend, Sublime Text. I'd forgotten how nice it is.
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The SLAP stack is the last server stack you'll ever need(blakewatson.com)
1 points by blakewatson 2mo ago|0 comments
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How (and why) we rewrote our production C++ front end infrastructure in Rust(blog.nearlyfreespeech.net)
2 points by blakewatson 5mo ago|0 comments
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by blakewatson 5mo ago
Seems like people don't like this comment, but I chuckled. Nice one.
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by blakewatson 6mo ago
The en-dash is for ranges. https://practicaltypography.com/hyphens-and-dashes.html
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by blakewatson 7mo ago
OP here, yeah I get that! I think the only technical input I had was my prompts for fixing bugs. I'm a web developer, so I have some familiarity with the life cycle of mouse events. Depending on what behaviors I was trying to fix, I co
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I used Claude Code and GSD to build the accessibility tool I've always wanted(blakewatson.com)
2 points by blakewatson 7mo ago|0 comments
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by blakewatson 8mo ago
Related: This is a nice write-up of how to write reactive jQuery. It's presented as an alternative to jQuery spaghetti code, in the context of being in a legacy codebase where you might not have access to newer frameworks. https:&#x2F
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by blakewatson 8mo ago
See also this lovely typeface revival. https://lineto.com/typefaces/valentine
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by blakewatson 8mo ago
https://blakewatson.com/
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by blakewatson 8mo ago
Probably not too useful for many in this audience, but I wrote a web book for *absolute beginners* learning HTML. It's very much in the same spirit as the OP's post. https://htmlforpeople.com/
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by blakewatson 9mo ago
Yes, this was the one I was thinking of!
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Understanding, not slop, is what's interesting about LLMs(blakewatson.com)
3 points by blakewatson 1y ago|1 comments
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by blakewatson 1y ago
TL;DR - The ability of computers to "understand" natural language and intent has staggering implications for accessibility.
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A Decade of Employment(blakewatson.com)
5 points by blakewatson 1y ago|1 comments
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by blakewatson 1y ago
I recently hit a 10-year milestone of being employed after many years of trying and failing to get a job.
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My computer treats me like a computer(blakewatson.com)
1 points by blakewatson 1y ago|0 comments
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The new normal of working from home(mattwatson.org)
2 points by blakewatson 2y ago|0 comments
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Textpod: "One Big Text File" + some magic note-taking app [video](youtube.com)
2 points by blakewatson 2y ago|0 comments
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by blakewatson 2y ago
I can’t get enough of anything that helps me wrap my mind around the scale of objects and distances in the universe. I recently discovered Epic Spaceman on YouTube, who makes incredible visual comparisons to help understand these scales. h
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by blakewatson 2y ago
I think https://spaceengine.org/ fills part of your request. I haven't played it but I've watched videos about it and it looks like you can jump anywhere around the observable universe and look at any object you w
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by blakewatson 2y ago
I went with "Get started already" :)
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by blakewatson 2y ago
Yeah the implication that I guess I didn't make well enough is that it's for anybody who wants to learn it. It’s attainable without needing highly specialized or intensive training.
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by blakewatson 2y ago
No I think I will probably keep it focused on HTML. I think my "CSS basics" chapter is as far as I want to go with styling. But I would love to see other folks publish easy-to-understand CSS tutorials.
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by blakewatson 2y ago
Yeah, I think you're right about that. I'm not sure whether I want to write something of an appendix myself and link to it, or find something else on the web and link to that.
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by blakewatson 2y ago
OP here. Yeah, I was a bit worried about this, and even though I kind of mentioned it in the introduction, I think it deserves more attention. I'm not sure if I want to write something and host it myself, or maybe just point people to
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by blakewatson 2y ago
Yes! I would love that. I need to update the readme, but I think my strategy would be to place translated chapters in a subfolder, (eg, "/es"). I can configure Eleventy to generate a different nav menu based on the subpath.
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by blakewatson 2y ago
OP here. Oooh that’s a good suggestion. Yeah it’s hard to shed the webdev persona and see it through fresh eyes—even though I specifically tried to do just that!
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by blakewatson 2y ago
OP here. I appreciate the kind words. Yeah, I hope it finds its way into the hands of non-professionals.

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